IxCHeL Fibres, Yarns & Art: June 2017

”Hang in there” - Bladerunner inspired acrylic painting on canvas by me

Yeah, I'm hanging in there alright at the moment. Hence the painting I made years ago, on the top of this blog.
Every year it seems to be super hectic and such a high intensity of blending and dyeing I compare it to climbing Mt Everest. This time I am doing it without oxygen it seems because I am slowly but surely getting more and more exhausted. I have not fainted and fallen on my face yet like a couple of years ago so I guess that is a positive thing, but today for the first time in ages, everything hurt and I felt sick as. So no dyeing for me today. Paul tied me to the bed instead…no, not in that 50 shades of whatever kind of way but bed REST. So yeah, not a happy bunny at the moment. I am sure it is some kind of winter bug with the excessive rain and winter cold is taking hold of me. Not to worry, nothing a bit of rest and a good cup o tea with honey can’t fix. Tomorrow is another day filled with the last preps for the Bendigo Show, that is only 2 weeks away ! How time flies !!!

Today is also the last day that you can sign up for the next clubs starting up in July ! So if you want to receive a surprise batt or tops or yarn, or hey, why not all three, message me or email me tonight!

Today I offer you a lot of bling and sparkles to brighten up your weekend : GaGa bunny tops ! This particular blend I have done with Glitz or as it is also known: trilobal nylon. This particular fibre is manmade and adds not only strength to your natural fibres in this case blue Faced Leicester sheep, making it an excellent choice for socks for example, but because it is “tri” lobal , meaning, on a microscopic level, it has three (tri) sides to the fibre, making it reflect the light much better abnd making it sparkle. I don’t know about you but I love a bit of bling in my blends. It’s almost like an instant happy smile.

Tonight is also the last night to add and vote for your favourite “Thinking outside of the Box” competition I am sponsoring on the Facebook Group “Australian Handspinners and Knitters” so head over there to cast your vote for what you think is some wearable fibre art that is inspiring !
Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AHandKG/ and go to the pinned post to view the entries and also to add your fibre art . The winner will be announced tomorrow at noon on the group and on the IxCHeL facebook group.

Tour De Fleece 2017 Team : still time to sign up ! and have some fun spinning together while watching the men in lycra speed across the French Countryside ! Here are all the links you need to participate in this amazing event : http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/ixchelbunny-fibre-and-yarn/3638518/1-25#2

Happy Hoppy Weekend to all !! Please message me with your wishes and your postal address on facebook, Instagram or ravelry or you can also email me on ixchelbunny at yahoo dot com dot au and I will get straight back to you with all the payment details.

New IxCHeL Club sign ups are still open for 1 day !

for the months : July, August and September 2017

For all our international club fans there is a possibility to ship all three clubs together to save on postage if you want :-) Just pm me and enquire about the options available.

IxCHeL Fibre Club July, August and September 2017

The subscription is for a period of three months and you will receive one special hand dyed top/roving per month to the value of AU$24 or more

All the tops will be hand dyed and will be especially made for the members of Ixchel Fibre Club ! Price to join the IxCHel Fibre Club #32 and receive your special hand dyed top :)) for three months (July, August and September) is AU$72 + postage (parcel post or airmail). AND there are good value double serves available !!!

For Australia : single serve $72+$28 postage (parcel post), double serve $136+$28 (save $8) or triple serves $204 (save $12!) + postage

For USA + Canada: single serve AU$72+AU$56 (Airmail) double serve AU$136+AU$56

For UK,Europe, rest of the world: Single serve AU$72+AU$69 (airmail) Double serve AU$136+AU$69

For Asia: Single serve AU$72+AU$50 (airmail) Double serve AU$136+AU$50

If you want to receive a fibre surprise every month then join the IXCHEL FIBRE CLUB #32 now. Numbers are strictly limited ! The July 2017 Club is going to be shipped out end of July. Payment via direct deposit or credit card or paypal. Just PM or email me your details

The IxCHeL Sock Yarn Clubs July, August and September 2017

Every month for three months (July, August and September 2017) you will receive: enough hand dyed luscious yummy yarn to make a pair of socks or a lush shawl or scarf ofcourse! (the hand dyed yarn will be exclusive for the Ixchelbunny SOCK-IT-TO-ME Yarn CLUB and will range from a sockweight yarn or a 3ply or a 4 ply); Every month a new sock pattern, tips and instructions ! Now is that GOOD or is that GOOD ??!

I will even offer a double serve for those of you who like their socks extra long !

For Australia : single serve $78+$28 postage (parcel post) double serve $130 (= one skein FREE!!!) +$28

For USA + Canada: single serve AU$78+AU$56 (Airmail) double serve $130 (= one skein FREE!!!) +AU$56

For UK,Europe, rest of the world: Single serve AU$78+AU$69 (airmail) Double serve $130 (= one skein FREE!!!) +AU$69

For Asia: Single serve AU$78+AU$45 (airmail) Double serve $130 (= one skein FREE!!!) +AU$45

Numbers are strictly limited !

Payment via direct deposit or credit card or paypal . Just PM or email me your details

By the way: you don’t HAVE to knit socks if you don’t want to.. the hand dyed yarn is amazingly nice for scarves, cowls, beanies and even tops ! Anything goes .

IxCHeL Funky Bunny Batt Clubs July, August and September 2017

Here are all the details and just pm me when you have any questions or want to be part of the funky bunny batt club Movement ;-) Welcome to the blingy dark side ;-D

The subscription is for a period of three months and you will receive one special hand dyed funky bunny batt per month to the value of AU$40 or more .

The batts will range in weight from 140grams to 180grams with luxury fibres like camel , angora, cashmere, silk, yak, llama even vampire deer and bison and rare sheep breeds !!!! All the batts will be hand dyed and will be especially made for the members of IxCHeL funky bunny Club ! Every month you will receive a HUGE luxury funky bunny batt !

Sign up now and you will receive an Ixchel Hand dyed , super luxurious funky bunny batt for July, August and September 2017.

Price to join the IxCHeL Funky bunny for three months is :

For Australia : $108+$28 postage (parcel post)

For USA + Canada: AU$108+AU$56 (Airmail)

For UK,Europe, rest of the world: AU$108+AU$69 (airmail)

For Asia: AU$108+AU$45 (airmail)

If you want to receive a fibre surprise every month then join the IXCHEL FUNKY BUNNY BATT CLUB now. Numbers are strictly limited ! The first installment is going to be shipped out end of July Payment via direct deposit or credit card or paypal. Just PM or email me

Please don't hesitate to contact me at any time if you have any questions okay? Always happy to enable. All my contact details are to be found at the end of this week’s blog entry. Have fun !!!

GaGA Bunny Tops
100 +grams/3.53 oz AU$24

Blue Faced Leicester, Angora, Cashmere, Glitz (Trilobal Nylon)

Zen

Winter Nightfall

Springtime-sold-

Rose Velvet

Rainbows and Unicorns

Indigo (Japanese)-sold-

Ice Queen

Happy Tutu

Gold Treasure

Glacier (dyed with Woad)

Bumble Bee

Baroque

Autumn-sold-

Dates to put in your Calendar !!

July

Friday July 14th- Sunday 16th, 9am-5pm

(Spot the bunny !!! 💗😛 )

Bendigo Sheep and Wool Show

THE event of the year !!!! Not to be missed!! I will be there in the Flower (Power Bunny) Shed again with heaps of new goodies, hand dyed and hand spun, IxCHeL new blends and rare sheep breed adventures and much much more ! Including a world first of something AMAZING AND FUN!!!!! Shhh not telling ! but it is AWESOME !!!! AND as every year: THERE WILL BE PRIZES TO BE WON when you spend over $100 !!!!!!!!

OCTOBER

Sunday 24th of September

Pakenham Hall

Corner Henry & John Streets , Pakenham

Enquiries: Steph: 0418 590 333

www.facebook.com/BCSBAA.VIC.SE

Black n Coloured Sheep FIELD DAY in Pakenham! Missing out on Bendigo? THIS is the event to visit !

Landscape dyes

100g tubs AU$11
250 g tubs AU$26

Want to dye your own with easy to use acid dyes? I have been selling these Landscape dyes at my workshops and shows for a long time : They are extremely easy to use and come in great shades.
Just contact me with the name of the colour you are after and I will get right back to you.

Have a creative week!

Please don't hesitate to contact me at any time if you have any questions okay? : Always happy to enable.

All my contact details are here:

How To Order:

1. You can email me on ixchel at rabbit dot com dot au or ixchelbunny at yahoo dot com dot au
2. Message me on facebook or
3. Message me on www.ravelry.com where I am Ixchelbunny.

I will email you right back with all your order details and payment methods.

Any questions? Any custom orders for yarn or dyeing fibre? : Please don’t hesitate to ask! Always happy to enable.

Thank you so much for your help and support !

RABBIT ON !

((hugs))

Charly

Ready for Winter by Shane Dimmick

It is getting colder and colder here and the piles of fibre and wool tops are getting higher and higher: it must almost be time for the Bendigo Show!

Today there was a planned power outage so not really a good time to be without electricity but there was plenty to do here : braiding and tagging and cutting out labels. The piles of fluff are slowly but surely growing and let me just say at this stage the places where you can actually sit in this house are getting less and less….unless you would like to wool dive of course !

Last night it was about 4am I dropped into bed after a full day of dyeing a new blend with rainbow stellina and blue faced Leicester : see it as a symbiosis of the GaGa Bunny tops AND Magic Bunny tops I have been doing for a loooooong time now with something galactically special.
This is what I do in my ..eh...spare time: try and come up with new blends and fibres and ways to make the “magic” happen.
That also means that when I come up with something new, an older blend needs to go. Sometimes it is a very hard decision: every blend is special to me. So, this time I have decided it is time to go for the Magic Bunny tops.
I still love that blend but I have to make room for new magic blends. I might revisit it again in a few years: never say never I always say ..lol

So for this update I am offering you the LAST of the Magic Bunny Tops I have and will have in stock for a loooong time.
This comes with a special offer price to thank you for the support for all the Magic.

I thinkI have promised you all a list , call it a "bendigo shopping list",well, here it is!For the Bendigo Show I have come up with the following fibres, yarns and special exciting to entice you:

Bunny Bison Bliss

Lush Bunny tops : a pearlescent blend with tencel, cashmere, angora and superfine Merino and more

Seasheep Tops: A blend with silver infused seaweed with a sheep breed , The North Ronaldsay , who eat nothing but seaweed and with other fibres to make your heart sing

Blossom Bunny: NEW! With rose fibres and super soft silk, merino, cashmere and angora

Hog Island: A very rare sheep breed!

North Ronaldsay : Pure seaweed eating sheep tops

Rainbow GAGA tops: Rainbow Stellina with blue faced Leicester to knock your socks off !

Alpine Silver: NEW! Silver sparkly stellina with Valais blacknose sheep ! Like spinning yarn in the Alps !

DIVA! : Superfine 15micron merino tops with tencel and cashmere and angora and silk YUM!

Camelbunny silk and cashmere tops

Angel Bunny Tops: Blue Faced Leicester Tops and tencel with a generous portion of cashmere and angora

Vampire Deer Tops NEW!: exclusive super fabulous tops that are so dreamy to spin and cuddle it is out of this world.

Eco printed and dyed Merino Silk and Angora tops ! NEW!!! Part of the IxCHeL Botanical Dye Range

Eco Printed and dyed IxCHeL Cashmerino Laceweight Yarn! NEW!!

Viva Frida tops: Navajo Churro with a serving of Agave Cactus fibres

Cashmere Fling: softer than a cloud

TUNDRA: Qiviut blend

Outlander Blend: A revisited blend I have done now for 4 years with the amazing rare Soay Sheep

Gothic Bunny tops : black silk blended with amazingly soft white merino and bunny and cashmere. NEW at Bendigo Show!

Black Bunny tops: a naughty black silk and deep all black blend to make any Goth happy

Icelandic Sheep tops

Wensleydale Tops

Blue Faced Leicester Tops

Pure Silk tops

Hand dyed pre felt

Fabrics

IxCHel Sock Yarn with silk NEW!! at the Bendigo Show! Speckled, variegated and semi solids and eco printed yarns

Mini skein pack with IxCHeL 4ply exclusive yarns ! !!

Handspun angora yarn

Handspun angora and Wallaby Yarn

Handspun angora and Possum Yarn NEW!

Handspun angora and Himalayan Marmot Yarn NEW!

North Ronaldsay Handspun 4 ply yarns

Long Repeat colour yarns 4ply

Bunny Mink Handspun and handdyed yarns

Funky Bunny Batts

Art Yarns!

Slubby Handspun and dyed yarns

Badges! Buttons!

Indigo Dye Packs

Landscape Dyes

Turkish Spindles : minis, animal cut outs and Sci Fi Spindles by Scott Snyder

Super special Drop, support and Mayan and Navajo Spindles (with turquoise and malachite and rose Quartz inlay) , handturned bowls and handpainted Tardis spindles, Needle cases, orifice hooks by Lair of the Bearded Dragon!

And .. … … much much more!

I knew I forgot to add a super special blend !!! : PIXIE BLEND! with rare Irish Kerry Hill Sheep !!

The Club sign ups are still open and if you like to receive a super fun parcel every month : please sign up as soon as you can to be part of the fun ! All the details are to be found below !

Tour De Fleece 2017 Team : still time to sign up ! and have some fun spinning together while watching the men in lycra speed across the French Countryside ! Here are all the links you need to participate in this amazing event : http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/ixchelbunny-fibre-and-yarn/3638518/1-25#2

Happy Hoppy Weekend to all !! Please message me with your wishes and your postal address on facebook, Instagram or ravelry or you can also email me on ixchelbunny at yahoo dot com dot au and I will get straight back to you with all the payment details.

New IxCHeL Club sign ups are now open !